Aquila chrysaetos 1896 Lake Umbagog. June-Aug. Maine. Grafton Hotel. On June 15th C.H. Watkins was told by Brooks, a farmer living just south of the Hotel that a pair of Eagles were nesting on the old eye on the face of the cliff near the base of Spaulding Mountain at the northern end of the Lake. As I was passing through Grafton, Aug. 8th, on my way to the Falls, Blanchard repeated the same story adding to it the information that a man named Davis who lives in this locality had made an attempt to reach the nest but failed & pronounced it inaccessible. He saw both the birds and fired twice at one of them but without apparently doing her any harm. He as well as the other farmers living near the Lake have frequently seen the Eagles soaring over the cliff, screaming. They have not nested on this cliff for a number of years past. (Photograph of cliff showing eye taken Oct. 5, 1896) October 4 Calais... A fine adult passed over the hotel almost within gunshot this morning and then circled around Sargent's Corn following the shore closely & evidently hunting. I had a good view of it through the glass & made out its characteristic coloring with perfect definiteness. It flight was fine and more graceful than that of a Bald Eagle. It soared in circles for awhile. The wings were held almost perfectly flat or level but the tips bent upward slightly. The golden brown head was very conspicuous. The flight was more like a Buteo's than a Bald Eagle's in fact very like that of B. borealis 1897. September 21 (Cf. Journal) 62